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Has anyone here successfully learned any programming languages with the help of ChatGPT?

I feel like we might be entering a new era of education with these LLMs, who will patiently tutor you and answer your every question (not perfectly yet, but we're getting there).

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The problem is still that you have no idea what is true and what is made up. Especially as a learner. On my last attempt it gave me a disguised infinity loop that ate up all the ram and frooze the computer.

I believe AI will be amazing for traditional language learning with voice recognition but it really needs to improve to be useful in other areas where facts actually matter. Maybe it can be solved by toning it down so it's less convincing and stop making up things. If that's at all possible.

I asked mine to code a game and I got an infinity stone in the mail, the yellow one. Weird.

Unfortunately LLMs, even the best one I'm aware that exists (GPT-4), aren't reliable.

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